Why this service is important for consumer convenience, how consumers browse actively for all products but for the biggest purchase of their lives they typically make, they haven’t had access to the same digital access. To let them get the guided tour of spaces it can save time and money for all involved, plus offer convenience for the consumer.

In this interview:

Looking at early innovators like Google Street View and NET-A-PORTER with 360 images, and now being able to compress quality of video necessary to make this full and better, getting a full tour experience with narration, and with embeddable video on a custom player

VirtualApt’s full production team in the autonomous robot, programming the same path a normal tour would be

Hiring veterans as robot operators and why this plays such a significant role for the company

How the service is as affordable as a photographer, and how VirtualApt is able to bring the cost structure down

Why so much of VirtualApt’s business is in residential real estate in Brooklyn, NY

The ability to have international consumers see virtual tours that are narrated in their native language, and why landlords love international renters

A snack of Raspberry pie has meaning

Reproducing currently guided tours, being able to meaningfully experience views and sizes that a 2-page brochure doesn’t work for, along with all the visualization that a company would need

How the price point is so low, providing everything the client needs and making it so much more affordable and with quality control plus touching many points of the process—this controlling best end results

The world of visualization beyond real estate, how VirtualApt is more of a tech company thank a service company, and the aptitude of apt

How VirtualApt is inventing its own tech

Creating more links into the video, seeing a product in that space, creating a new experience, shoppable links to buy or shop, and making virtual reality experience what it should be

Bringing you to another location where you want to be, showing what makes that space unique

Bootstrapping the company, recruiting the right people, creating a company culture as an enjoyable place to be

Does this technology risk putting real estate agents out of business or is it creating opportunities?

How robots can provide nearly exact measurements of a space, and Colin’s favorite robots

Being comfortable in your own self and in the world, and the cost of being focused as an entrepreneur

How the digital is now, and it is necessary to be focused on how you look digitally and your digital presence as the place when someone is there already